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[Samuel_Michon]

Is a Dyson vacuum cleaner generic, because other companies have started making similar models?

[trhtrsh → Samuel_Michon]

The design has become generic, yes. That's what generic means: "pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific."

[Samuel_Michon → trhtrsh]

So when everyone starts copying the design of this Facebook page, the page will become generic? I somehow doubt that’s what parent was alluding to. I read ‘generic’ as an euphemism for ‘unoriginal’, which Apple product pages definitely aren’t.